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Department of History
Monmouth College
700 East Broadway
Monmouth, IL 61462
309.457.2372
SCordery@MonmouthCollege.edu
www.stacycordery.com
Education:
- Ph.D. in History, highest honors, The University of Texas
at Austin, May 1992
- M.A. in History, high honors, The University of Texas at
Austin, May 1986
- B.A. in Theater, highest honors, The University of Texas at
Austin, May 1983
Publications:
Books:
Articles:
- "Princess Alice:" The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth," Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Volume
XXIII, Number 4 (2000), 10-14."
- 'The First Daughter of the Land': Alice Roosevelt as
Presidential Celebrity, 1902-1906," Presidential Studies
Quarterly, Volume XIX, Number 1 (Winter 1989), 51-70.
Chapters:
- "Women in Industrializing America," in The Gilded Age:
Essays on the Origins of Modern America, Charles W. Calhoun,
ed., Scholarly Resources, 2003, [1996], 111-135.
- "Juliette Gordon Low," Notable American Philanthropists: A
Biographical Encyclopedia of Giving and Volunteering, Robert
T. Grimm, Jr., ed., Greenwood/Oryx Press, 2002, 187-191.
- "Helen H. Taft," in American First Ladies: A Biographical
Encyclopedia, Lewis L. Gould ed., Garland Publishing, 1996,
321-339.
- "Edith Kermit Roosevelt," in American First Ladies: A
Biographical Encyclopedia, Lewis L. Gould, ed., Garland
Publishing, 1996, 294-320.
- "Theodore Roosevelt's Private Diplomat: Alice Roosevelt and
the 1905 Far Eastern Junket," in Theodore Roosevelt:
Many-Sided American, Naylor, Gable, and Brinkley eds., Heart
of the Lakes Publishing, 1992, 353-367.
Biographical Articles:
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth" (pp. 318-320); "Elliott
Roosevelt" (pp. 446-448); "Theodore Roosevelt" (pp. 467-469);
and "Anna Roosevelt Cowles" (pp. 115-116), The Eleanor
Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Maurine H. Beasley and Holly C.
Shulman, eds, Greenwood Press, 2001.
- "Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney" and "Juliette Gordon Low"
(Vol. 9, pp. 714-720), Women in World History, Anne Commire,
ed., Yorkin Publications, 2001.
- "Theodore Roosevelt," Encyclopedia of American Studies,
George T. Kurian and Miles Orvell, eds., Grolier Press, 2001.
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth" (pp. 896-898); and "Helen H.
Taft" (pp. 253-254) American
National Biography, John Garraty, ed., Oxford University
Press, 1999, 896-898.
- "Bebe
Daniels," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 2, Texas State
Historical Association, 1996, 507.
- "Anna
Pennybacker," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 5, Texas
State Historical Association, 1996, 141-142.
- "Anne
Sheridan," The New Handbook of Texas Volume 5, Texas State
Historical Association, 1996, 1018.
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth," for Dictionary of American
Biography, Supplement, Volume 10, Kenneth T. Jackson, ed.,
Charles Scribners' Sons, 1995, 464-466.
- "Mildred Dunnock," in Notable Women in the American
Theater, Robinson, Roberts, and Barranger, eds., Westport
Press, 1989, 243-246.
Web Resources:
- Web bibliographer,
National First
Ladies' Library, 2001-present.
- Instructor's Manual for David A. Horowitz and Peter N.
Carroll's On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth
Century, 3rd Edition, 2004.
Book Reviews:
- Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a
Marriage that Made a President,
Betty Boyd Caroli, Presidential Studies
Quarterly,
forthcoming, 2016.
- Important Voices: North Dakota's Women Elected
State Officials Share Their Stories, 1893-2013.
Susan E. Wefald, ed., North Dakota History, Vol. 80, no.
4 (Winter 2015): 34-35.
- The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow: As
Revealed by Her Own Letters, Myra H. Prithchard,
Jason Emerson, ed., Journal of Illinois History,
Vol. 14, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 139-140.
- American Ideal: Theodore Roosevelt's Search
for American Individualism, Paul M. Rego, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, no. 2 (June 2011):
429-430.
- Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol. 1, Ann Short
Chirhart and Betty Wood, eds., Georgia Historical Quarterly,
2010.
- Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer, Nancy C.
Unger, Indiana Magazine of History, December 2001, 321-322.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. I and II, Blanche Wiesen Cook,
Journal of Policy History, Vol. 12, no. 4 (2000): 531-534.
-
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, J. William
T. Youngs, for H-Net's H-Women academic listserv, December
1999.
-
Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life, Desley
Deacon, for H-Net's H-Women academic listserv, November 1998.
- An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age
Kansas, Michael Lewis Goldberg, Women Historians of the
Midwest (WHOM) newsletter, fall 1998, 6-7.
- U.S. National Archives Digital Classroom Project: Woman
Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment, Electronic Journal of
Australian and New Zealand History, summer 1998.
- Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American
Past, Catherine Clinton, ed., The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society, Vol. 93, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 374-375.
- I've Seen the Best of It: Memoirs, by Joseph Alsop,
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Vol. XX, Nos. 1 &
2 (Fall-Winter 1994-1995): 18-20.
- Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern
Feminism, by Susan Ware, The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Summer 1994):
334-335.
- How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith, Margaret
Rose Gladney, ed., North Carolina Historical Review,
Vol. LXXI, No. 1 (January 1994): 131-132.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, by Blanche Wiesen Cook,
The Register of
the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 91, No. 2 (Spring
1993),:235-237.
- Pornography and the Law: An Annotated Bibliography of
Conflict, 1970-1986, Sellin and Young, eds., in American
History: A Bibliographic Review, III (1987): 200-203.
Lecture Series:
- "Unelected and Unaccountable: Powerful First Ladies in U.S.
History," four-day lecture series, Senior Citizens, Inc., Savannah,
21-24 September 2009.
- "Women and Politics: It's All About Power,"
Scholar-in-Residence, Kislak Adult Center, YMHA, New Jersey, 6-10
September 2004.
Invited Lectures:
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique and
Women's Liberation in Historical Context" Panel, Bradley
University, March 2012.
- "The Precious Moments Before the Crowded Hour: Theodore and
Edith Roosevelt in Tampa, 1898," Theodore Roosevelt Association
Annual Meeting, October 2009.
- "Alice Blues: Revisiting the First Daughter," Theodore Roosevelt
Center Symposium, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, North
Dakota, October 2009.
- "Alice Roosevelt: Diva, Diplomat, First Daughter," Buffalo &
Erie County Historical Society, November 2007.
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Public and Private Lives," Savannah,
July 2007.
- "Federal Censorship of the Federal Theater Project," DuPage
Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2007.
- "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt: The First Presidential
'Two-fer'?" Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, May 2006.
- "The Other Washington Monument: Alice Roosevelt Longworth,"
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, Buffalo, New
York, March 2006.
- "N.O.W. or Never? Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly," DuPage Valley
Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2006.
- "The Wartime Partnership of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt,"
DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2006.
- "Theodore Roosevelt: The Morals Make the Man," Georgia Historical
Society's Great Americans Biography Symposium, Savannah, Georgia,
April 2005.
- "Stuck Between the China Cabinet and the Cabinet Briefing: The
Role of Modern First Ladies," Bradley University, March 2005.
- "The Modern Women's Liberation Movement: The Documented Truth,"
DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2005.
- "Did WWI Really Lead Directly to WWII?," DuPage Valley
Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2005.
- "Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern," DuPage
Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, February 2003.
- "Rethinking the Origins of the American Republic: Catherine
Allgor's Parlor Politics, DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference,
Naperville, February 2003.
- "The Plow, The Pedestal, The Stump, The Coffin: Presidents After
the Presidency," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference,
Naperville, March 2002.
- "From Sidelines to Center Court: A Brief History of Women in
Sports," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March
2002.
- "Presidential Daughters and Their Histories,"
Hutchison School, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2002.
- "The Echo of the National Divide: Gender and the Coming of the
Civil War," talk to AP History students, Glenbard North High
School, Naperville, February 2002.
- "Partners in Power: First Ladies and United States History,"
DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2000.
- "Unrecorded Casualties: Women and the Vietnam Conflict," DuPage
Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville, March 2000.
- "Sagamore Hill to San Juan: Theodore Roosevelt and the Spanish
American War," DuPage Valley Social Studies Conference, Naperville,
February 1999.
- "Reclaiming Biography: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Social
History," Humanities Research Center at Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford, England, May 1997.
- "The Lessons of Feminist Biography for the Roosevelt Family
Women," Vanderbilt University, March 1997.
- "Women in a Man's World: Gender, Politics and the Roosevelt
Family," Tennessee Tech University, March 1997.
Conference Presentations:
- "Sunshine and Shadow: Theodore Roosevelt's Life in Boston,"
Theodore Roosevelt Association Annual Meeting, Boston, October 2007.
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the 1912 Election: Public Woman,
Private Crucible," Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Association, Boston, January 2001.
- "Balancing a Teeter-Totter," for the Coordinating Committee on
Women's History at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Association, Boston, January 2001.
- "From Sagamore Hill to San Juan: Teaching About TR and the
Spanish American War," Annual Conference on the Teaching of History,
Western Illinois University, April 1998.
- "'We Began to Seem Like Dinosaurs': The Demise of the Fortnightly
Women's Club in its Centennial Year," Women Historians of the
Midwest Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1997.
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the 1912 Election: An Insider's
Perspective," Mid-America Conference on History, Topeka, Kansas,
1996.
- "You Are My Greatest Inspiration: Anna Pennybacker and the Texas
Federation of Women's Clubs," South Central Women's Studies
Association Conference, Denton, Texas, 1990.
- "Anna Pennybacker and the Tradition of Progressive Reform in
Texas," Phi Alpha Theta meeting, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1990.
Conference Commentator / Moderator:
- Commentator, "Politics in the Progressive Era," papers by Richard
Jensen and John McClymer, New England Historical Association
Meeting, Boston, April 2000.
- Commentator, "Autobiography and
Constructions of the Self," The Quiet in the Land?: Women of
Anabaptist Traditions in Historical Perspective Conference,
Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1995.
- Moderator, "Gender and Nature: A Partnership for Equality and
Integrity," Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference,
Greenville, North Carolina, 1994.
Teaching Positions:
- Professor (2006), Monmouth College; fall 1994 though present.
Courses developed: World War II, U. S. Women's History,
African-American History, Biography and History, The Vietnam Era,
the Trans-Atlantic World, the Historians Craft, Film and History,
Archives I-III. Courses taught: Introduction to Liberal Arts, United
States History 1492-1901; United States History 1750-1901; United
States History 1901-Present, History of Illinois; Women, Justice, &
Equality (the capstone course in Women's Studies).
- Created, in concert with departmental colleagues, a
unique undergraduate History curriculum, "History from
the Documents Up," which debuted in the autumn of 2012.
- Visiting Assistant Professor, East Carolina University; fall 1992
through spring 1994. Courses taught: United States History to 1877;
United States History since 1877; Honors Independent Study--Women
and Family during the Civil War.
- Assistant Instructor, The University of Texas at Austin; fall
1990 through spring 1991. Course taught: United States History since
1877.
- Lecturer, University of Arkansas; fall 1988 through spring 1990.
Course taught: United States History since 1877. "Theodore
Roosevelt's Private Diplomat: Alice Roosevelt and the 1905 Far
Eastern Junket," Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America
Conference, Hempstead, New York, 1990.
Selected Media Appearances:
- CNN Commentator for Nancy Reagan's funeral,11 March
2016.
- C-SPAN's American History TV Lectures in History,
"The Women's Liberation Movement," Spring 2014.
- C-SPAN's
"First Ladies: Influence & Image--Edith
Roosevelt," September 2013.
- For Alice-related and Juliette Gordon Low-related media appearances,
please see
www.stacycordery.com
- The Diane Rehm Show,
"Juliette Gordon Low," February 2012.
- Frequent consultant for journalists on the topic of First Ladies
and First Families.
-
Interesting People, WTVP Peoria PBS television show, November
2009.
- KLTC Radio, Dickinson, North Dakota, live radio interview on
Theodore Roosevelt, October 2009.
- CNN/Anderson Cooper 360, on Michelle Obama, February 2009.
- "Steele Talkin'," WCCO live radio show, Twin Cities, on First
Ladies, September 2007.
- BBC Radio Four's "Midweek, with Libby Purvis," live radio
interview on U.S. First Ladies, London, November 1992.
Professional Service:
- Treasurer, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era (SHGAPE),
three year term: 2015-2017
- Senior Historical Consultant, Theodore Roosevelt
Center/Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library, Dickinson,
North Dakota, 2010-present.
- Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board,
Sagamore Hill, New York, 2008-2010; 2014-2016.
- Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Theodore Roosevelt
Center/Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library, Dickinson, North Dakota,
2010.
- Consultant, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site,
Buffalo, New York, 2009.
- Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era Best Article Prize
Committee, 2007-2009.
- Secretary,
Women's and
Gender Historians of the Midwest, summer 2000-2006.
- Contributing Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era, 2003.
- Member, Teaching Awards Committee, American Historical
Association, 2002-2005; Chair in 2005.
- Guest e-scholar in Dr. Kris Lindenmeyer's "TR and Modern America"
class, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, November 2002.
- "Jenna Has a Role Model," Scripps Howard News Service guest
column, June 2001.
- Book Review Editor,
H-Women, 2000-2005.
- Co-founder (with Dr. Steve Reschly) and faculty advisor for
H-HistMajor, an
H-Net
listserv for undergraduate history majors, 1998-2012.
- List Editor,
H-Women
(an H-Net listserv for women's
historians), 1996-2000.
- Associated Colleges of the Midwest Women's Concerns Committee
Representative, 1996-1998.
- Member, Planning Committee, Western Illinois Arts and Humanities
Council, 1994-1996.
- Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1994-1995.
- Curriculum Committee, Department of History, East Carolina
University, 1993-1994.
- Current Events Forum panel member, East Carolina University,
February 1993.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
- Nominated for Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Liberal Arts Education, 2016.
- Hatch Distinguished Scholarship and Research Award,
Monmouth College, 2012
- Who's Who in America, 2011.
- Jerome Hatch Teaching Excellence Award, Monmouth College, 2007.
- R. McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust Grant, 2003.
- Monmouth College Senior Professor of the Year, 2003.
- Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Travel Grant, 2001.
- Monmouth College Professor of the Year, 1998.
- Monmouth College Professor of the Year, 1997.
- Herbert R. Paschal, Jr. Memorial Faculty Development Grant, East
Carolina University, 1992.
Professional Associations:
Selected Monmouth College Service:
- Charter Member, Planning and Priorities Committee,
2014-present
- Co-chair, Planning and Priorities Committee Working
Group, 2015-present
- Presidential Inaugural Committee, 2014-2015
- Chair, Department of History, 2013-2016, 2003-2008,
Acting Chair, spring 1996
- Faculty Senate, 2014-2016, 2007-2008, 1997-1999
(Secretary to Faculty Senate 1998-1999 and 2015-2016)
- Hatch Scholarship Award Committee, 2013-2016
- Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014
- Classics Department Search Committee, 2014
- Associate Dean Search Committee, 2007
- Admission and Academic Standards Committee, 2005-2008
- Program Advisor, study abroad exchange program,
Umea University,
Umea, Sweden, 2004-2011
- Introduction to Liberal Arts New Theme Committee, 2004-2005
- Played Macbeth in Macbeth, directed by Bill Wallace, 31 October-3
November 2002
- Personnel Committee, 2002-2005, 2011-2012
- Founding Faculty Advisor, PRISM (for LGBT students & their
allies), 1999-2008
- Search Committee, Political Economy and Commerce, 1997-98
- Search Committee, Director of Hewes Library, 1998
- Director of Women's Studies, 1995-2001
- Public Affairs Committee, 1995-1997
- Search Committee, Math Department, 1995-1996
- Curator of the Monmouth College Archives, 1995-present
- Faculty Advisor to Pi Beta Phi, 1995-1998
- Co-coordinator of Campus Worship, 1995-1996
- Co-advisor to Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society,
1995-present
- Advisor to the Coalition for Women's
Concerns, 1995-2010
- Director of the Monmouth College Oral History Project,
1994-present
- Faculty Advisor to the Spirit Squad, 1994-1996
- Affirmative Action Committee, 1994-1995
Monmouth College Lectures:
- "A Roosevelt for All Seasons--Especially Election
Season," Golden Scots Weekend, 2016.
- "The Long Road to Equal Education," Pan-Hellenic
Talk, February 2016.
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth," Alumni Weekend, 2009
- "The Feminist Quilt," The F-Word Series, April 2007
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth: The Other Washington Monument,"
promotion talk, November 2005
- "Writing Lives, Living Life: Or, A Feminist Biographer Makes
Sense of Her Sabbatical," sabbatical talk, November 2002
- "Pillow Politics: America's First Ladies," Monmouth College
Board of Trustees presentation, October 2002
- "From the Sidelines to Center Court: A Brief History of Women
and Sports in the U.S.," guest lecture in Sports History class,
April 2002
- "Of Women, Men, Saloons, Good, and Evil," talk to cast of
What a
Good Woman Needs, November 2000
- "Pillow Talk: First Ladies and Political Power," Monmouth
Associates talk, April 2000
- Panelist, The Historical Jesus, October 1997
- "Alice Roosevelt Longworth," tenure talk, November 1997
- "Meditation on the Magnificat," Chaplin's Ecumenical Service,
December 1996
- "Changing Times, Changing Places," Fulton Hall Dorm Talk, October
1995
- "TR, College Football, and Masculinity," Education Night, Sigma
Phi Epsilon, September 1994
Selected Community Lectures:
- "The Life of Mary Todd Lincoln," Lincoln Symposium, Galesburg,
April 2009.
- "Mary Todd Lincoln," Pathfinders, First Lutheran Church,
Galesburg, February 2007.
- "The Women's Rights Movement," Silas Willard Elementary,
Galesburg, May 2004.
- "The Roosevelt Family," YMCA's Active Older Adults program,
Monmouth, May 2003.
- "The Stronger the Womb, the Stronger the Nation: Theodore
Roosevelt and the Construction of Gender," Monmouth AAUW, March
2003.
- "First Ladies and the Question of Power," Coldbrook Women's Club,
March 2001.
- "The Post-Presidential Career of Theodore Roosevelt," Carl
Sandburg College for Senior Citizens, March 2001.
- "Eleanor Roosevelt: Leadership Despite the Odds," presentation
before the student council members of twelve regional high schools,
Warren High School, January 2001.
- "'These Ten Months of Strain': Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the
1912 Election," Monmouth Chapter of the American Association of
University Women, November 1996.
- "'My Dearest Partner of Greatness': Mary Todd Lincoln as
First Lady," Lincoln Society, Monmouth, April 1996.
- "Come and Sit By Me," Monmouth Kiwanis Club, April 1996. "The
First American Female Celebrity," Monmouth Rotary Club, January
1996.
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